I am sending you the link to a Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change, which I helped to compose, along with David Loy and John Stanley, a British micro-biologist. If you agree with the statement, please sign it and return it to the Ecobuddhism website. Thank you.

Please also pass it on to your own Buddhist friends and colleagues. Those involved with organizations should feel at liberty to post the declaration, or a link to it, on their websites.

When I pray one-pointedly, with fervent faith and devotion,To the master Padmakara, to Padmapani, venerable Tara and other deitiesIn whom the Three Precious Jewels are all gathered,I beseech you to direct your enlightened intention compassionately toward us From the invisible expanse of reality!

All aeons of time that are illustrious in lifespan and merits are destroyedBy ill-intentioned thoughts and deeds, and by evil barbarity.Will you not therefore direct your enlightened intention compassionately Toward living beings who, lacking positive opportunities, Commit an enormous mass of degenerate actions, embodying the five degradations?

Due to rapacious greed that covets the world’s resources Trees and forests are cut down and so forth,Causing an imbalance of the rain water element.May you swiftly and compassionately protectLiving beings who fall into such disastrous circumstances!

In order that countless diverse machines might be brought into serviceThere is unlimited excavation of mines, and through these actionsThe abodes of celestial, aquatic and terrestrial spirits are imbalanced.Grant your blessings therefore that afflictions associated with the elements might be assuaged!

The air is being polluted by billowing clouds of smoke from countless factories,And through this primary cause, The whole world trembles due to unprecedented diseases.Grant your blessings that it may be protected from such states of misery!

In particular, due to insatiable desires and cravings, Coarse human behaviour pulverizes the physical world and its organisms,Giving rise to an imbalance of the four naturally occurring elements.Grant your blessings therefore, that the mundane aggregatesMight be pacified right where they are, without causing harm!

The poison of global warming due to the harnessing of machines in all places and times,Is causing the existing snow mountains to melt,And the oceans will consequently bring the world within reach of the aeon’s end.Grant your blessings that it may be protected from these conditions!

Moreover, there are incurable skin diseases that ariseFrom the breaching of the natural ozone canopyWhich inhibits the intolerable and terrifying poisonous radiation of the sun. Grant you blessings that these may be pacified, remaining behind in name alone!

In brief, dependent on strong desire and craving,This world generated by ordinary past actionsIs beginning to be swiftly transformed into a desert.Grant your blessings that the negative past actions which are responsible Might cease, right where they are!

Although the entire mass of defects that afflict the physical world and its living organismsHas been engendered by the dissonant mental states associated with past actions,Comprising all primary and secondary dissonant mental states,Even so, through the unfailing power of truth, of the Three Precious Jewels,I pray that all the points of this aspirational prayer may be fulfilled!

This prayer was composed by Ngawang Kunga of the Dolma Palace, throne holder of Sakya, in accordance with the repeated exhortations of Dr John Stanley, conveyed with the great clarity of higher aspiration, with regard to the impending catastrophe that now confronts the environment and living organisms in all parts of the world. May its aspirations be accordingly fulfilled!

"These days, look around the world; famines, wars, conflicts, other upheavals are all over the world. People allow their emotions to run wild, act under their power. Were hatred, pride, jealousy, desire and stupidity to decrease, not only conflicts but also epidemics and natural calamities in the world would decrease as well.

Like the smoke disappearing when a fire is extinguished." Kyabje Dilgo Kyentse Rinpoche

the essential problem is overpopulation.This is rarely ever discussed in global warming or other envirnomental discussions. The world is simply not able to sustain 6 billion or more people. I'd guess some people religions say we must go forth and multiply but by my take these are also faulted ideologies. We only have to look to the microcosm of Easter Island history to see that. We must simply have less people. Sure work on all these things(we must) but also at the heart is this thing.

That aside we may do one thing personally to prevent global warming everywhere and right now.....become a vegetarian or even better in this regard a vegan vegitarian. Check the research much less carbon is produced by such dietary habits.

"This order considers that progress can be achieved more rapidly during a single month of self-transformation through terrifying conditions in rough terrain and in "the abode of harmful forces" than through meditating for a period of three years in towns and monasteries"....Takpo Tashi Namgyal.